"Brother Zhen, I'm sorry that I have to make a trip for you." Cheng Xiaolin said.
Cao Zhen waved his hand: "Brother and sister, you are too polite. When I go back, I will make a call and Shujie will go to Quancheng Airport to pick us up."
"Speaking of which, Shujie helped me the most. If you say that, I won't dare to call him in the future."
As soon as he finished speaking, Cheng Xiaolin waved her hands hurriedly: "I didn't mean that."
Cao Shujie handed Cao Zhen an apple: "There's nothing else in the hotel, so let's have an apple I brought from home."
"This is very good." Cao Zhen looked at the apple in his hand and said, "You don't know, if it weren't for the apple you gave me, I wouldn't be able to chase my wife."
Cao Shujie thought Cao Zhen was joking, but seeing the serious expression on Cao Zhen's face, he asked: "Is it true?"
"That can still be false." Cao Zhen said with a smile.
He said: "I took the train from home to come here during the National Day holiday last year. After getting off the train, I happened to meet my wife at the station. I didn't know what to think at the time, so I gave her an apple."
"Hey, she also answered the call, and we exchanged QQ numbers. Later, she said that this apple is delicious, even better than the apples they grow here."
He mentioned one thing: "I called you later and asked you to send me some. Do you still remember?"
"Why don't you remember, the shipping fee is so expensive?" Cao Shujie complained.
Cao Zhen was proud: "Those apples were given to my wife."
Seeing Cao Zhen's pride, Cao Shujie and Cheng Xiaolin looked at each other, neither of them expected it to be like this.
"Cao Zhen, you gave your sister-in-law the apple because she is pretty, right?" Cao Shujie asked him.
"Haha!" Cao Zhen laughed.
You can tell at a glance and guess it correctly.
"Where is grandpa? Where is aunt? Let's go eat first." Cao Zhen said.
"What to eat?" Cao Shujie asked him.
Cao Zhen is also a bachelor: "I'm not as rich as you, and I can't afford someone too expensive."
"Brother Zhen, just have some food." Cheng Xiaolin said.
"That won't work. I'll take you to a place today. The Xinjiang cuisine there is very authentic." Cao Zhen said.
"Wait a minute, I'll call my grandpa and the others." Cao Shujie stood up and walked outside.
Not long after, everyone gathered together, took Cao Shujie's car, followed his instructions, and arrived in front of a store called "Xiyu Renjia".
Cao Zhen pointed here and said, "Let's go. It's hard to find a place here, but the food here is really good."
"There's buffalo beef, it tastes really great," he said.
"Uncle, is it delicious?" Mengmeng had already started to swallow her saliva.
Cao Zhen nodded heavily: "Mengmeng, I promise you, it must be delicious, otherwise I will crawl back."
"Zhen, are you busy here?" Cao Zhenghu asked him.
They talked as they walked and entered the store. Cao Zhen went to ask for a good room and the group sat down.
"Grandpa, it's okay. I'll finish my work this month and wait until all the cotton is harvested before I go back next month," Cao Zhen said.
The waiter came in with the menu, and Cao Zhen was still thinking about asking Cao Zhenghu and the others to order a few dishes.
Cao Zhenghu and Wang Yuelan waved their hands and were not familiar with this place at all.
Cao Shujie said: "Cao Zhen, if we don't do this, just do it."
Cao Zhen was no longer polite. He looked at the menu and asked the waiter to record the name of the dish.
Order one each of the sour soup wontons and the small pot wontons, which are for the elderly and children.
"Cao Zhen, ok, we can't eat so much." Upon hearing this, Cao Shujie quickly grabbed the menu and asked the waiter to cook the dishes just now.
Cao Zhen calculated the amount of food and didn't order more.
Get another bottle of white wine and two lemon sodas.
Cao Zhen first poured a glass for Cao Zhenghu, and said: "Grandpa, please drink less, and we will take care of the rest."
Lemon soda was given to Cheng Xiaolin and others who did not drink alcohol.
When he poured it for Mengmeng, Mengmeng held the wine glass and said seriously: "Uncle, I want to toast you a glass. Thank you for inviting me to dinner."
"Haha, you little devil, who taught you to say that?" Cao Zhen was overjoyed.
The more he looked at Mengmeng, the more he liked it, and thought it would be best for his wife to have a daughter this time.
Mengmeng shouted: "I learned from watching TV."
"You are so smart." Cao Zhen gave him a thumbs up.
After the dishes were served one after another, Cao Zhen asked everyone to eat first, while he and Cao Shujie drank wine and slowly chatted about things here.
"How about growing cotton here?" Cao Shujie was very interested.
"It's really good. We have a good harvest this year. In addition to the 5,000 kilograms of cotton we grew ourselves, we also bought a lot more." Cao Zhen said.
At this time, the quantity on the market is large, and cotton is cheaper.
"Then your company has great advantages this year!" Cao Shujie said.
Cao Zhen nodded: "Let's put it this way, our company should have arranged for people to come here early and contract more land, which would also reduce the cost of raw materials a lot."
"Before I left, my uncle asked me to contract some more land," Cao Zhen said.
"Enough for 10,000 acres?" Cao Shujie asked casually.
But he was really made to guess. Cao Zhen looked at him with wide eyes: "Shujie, you can do it. You can guess right."
Next to them, Cao Zhenghu, Wang Yuelan and Li Xiaojuan were listening to their conversation and didn't know how to answer the conversation.
The entire Caojiazhuang has a total of more than 2,300 acres of land. This 10,000 acres of land can equal three and a half Caojiazhuang.
As for the land on the Chengjiapo side, it is better, with a total area of just over 1,800 acres.
Cheng Xiaolin couldn't imagine that kind of scene either.
Cao Zhen said: "Regardless of the fact that contracting 10,000 acres of land is really not expensive, the place here is too big."
Cao Shujie firmly believes in this.
Xinjiang covers an area of 1.6 million square kilometers, accounting for one-sixth of the country's total area, and is as large as 11 Dongshan Provinces.
Typically, the land is vast, sparsely populated, and there is too much land.
He shouted: "If the place is not too far away and inconvenient, I will come here and plant 10,000 acres of orchards."
"Come on, you can make a lot of money in your hometown, just plant your orchard there." Cao Zhen didn't suggest that he come over.
He himself knows how he got here in the past year.
Even Cheng Xiaolin said to him after hearing this: "Why do you do so many things?"
"I'll just talk casually." Cao Shujie said with a smile.
Regarding Cao Zhen's return to Pingyuan County next month, Cao Shujie guessed the reason. He also asked Cao Zhen: "After you return, will you still go to work at Mingbo Textile?"
"I want to go knitting." Cao Zhen said, "My wife is pregnant, but we have paid the rent at the Five-Star Department Store in Yiling City. The renovation will be completed in December. I have to go and take a look at it then."
"Besides, the factory can only give me this amount of salary at most, and nothing more. Why should I go there?" Cao Zhen thought of the child who was about to be born, and he was also quite stressed.
…
Cao Zhen ordered so many dishes that he didn't even finish the entire table, so he packed them up and took them back to the hotel.
On the way back, Cheng Xiaolin drove.
When he returned to the Kunlun Hotel, Cao Zhen took his cell phone and asked for a driver to drive back, but Cao Shujie stopped him.
"Let's go, don't go back tonight, stay here for one night, just in time to have a drink with the remaining dishes, we will go home tomorrow." Cao Shujie went to get a room again.
"Are you going back tomorrow?" Cao Zhen really didn't expect Cao Shujie and the others to go back so early.
Cao Shujie nodded: "I've been out for nine days. I originally planned to finish the job in ten days. I just arrived here and it will take a week to go back."
"There's nothing to do now, let's just play!" Cao Zhen said to him, "You're not short of money."
Cao Shujie turned to look at him and said, "I'm busy."
"I just bought 300 cows before I came here. Is it okay if I don't go back and take a look at it?" Cao Shujie said.
Cheng Xiaolin held her daughter's hand from behind and rolled her eyes. At this moment, she thought about buying 300 cows.
Cao Zhen really didn't expect Cao Shujie to buy so many cows again, so he asked what was going on.
They took the elevator to the 8th floor and asked Grandpa and the others to rest first. The two of them entered the room just opened for Cao Zhen and chatted in detail. Only then did Cao Zhen realize that Cao Shujie had caused so many things in the month since he came back from his hometown.
"You are really good, you have five or six hundred cows now, are you worth tens of millions?" Cao Zhen looked at him and never expected that this guy's net worth would soar like a rocket.
Cao Shujie corrected him seriously: "Counting 10 cows, there are now a total of 546 cows. Where did the 600 cows come from?"
"Please make up for it!"
Cao Zhen really wanted to slap him, but he was also curious about one thing: "I'm just wondering, how much did you sell those big names in total?"
Cao Shujie thought for a while and said: "It should be more than 1.2 million. I can't remember the specific details. I have to go back and check the ledger."
"Grass!"
Cao Zhen was rude and said, "You kid really made a lot of money."
He then made some calculations orally and shouted: "According to what you say, you can sell more than 500 cows for more than 12 million?"
Cao Shujie shook his head: "That's not how the account is calculated. I only buy feed and forage. Do you know how much it costs per day?"
After hearing what he said, Cao Zhen stopped talking. According to common sense, this is really the case.
They only saw how much money Cao Shujie earned from selling cattle, but they automatically blocked his cost investment. Little did they know that the investment behind him was too great.
Cao Shujie said: "Business that makes money is not easy to do."
"Hypocritical!" Cao Zhen scolded him.
…
One night passed, and when they got up the next morning, they ate breakfast in the Kunlun Hotel, and ate everything they had packed back last night.
After eating, his mother Wang Yuelan, mother-in-law Li Xiaojuan, and his wife Cheng Xiaolin went back to the room to pack their things and prepare to return.
Cao Shujie held Mengmeng's hand with one hand and his nephew Cheng Tiandong's hand with the other, talking to Cao Zhen.
We meet briefly and then part ways.
If Cao Zhen doesn't go back next month, there will be a sad parting atmosphere at this time.
But Cao Zhen shouted: "Shujie, we can drink again when we go back next month."
"I'm leaving now. There's still cotton waiting to be harvested in the fields."
"Slow down on the road." Cao Shujie let go of his daughter's hand and waved to Cao Zhen.
Seeing him driving away first, Cao Shujie took the two little guys back to the eighth floor. Seeing that things were almost packed, he said, "Shall we go too?"
"Let's go. We've had enough fun and food along the way. Do we have to eat all the way back?" Cheng Xiaolin amused.
But Cao Shujie said seriously: "No problem, it would be good to eat it again."
Before getting on the bus, Cao Shujie asked them: "Grandpa, are you really not going back by plane?"
"If you take a seat, I will take you to the airport now. It will take you to Quancheng Airport in three hours, and you can get home in the evening."
As soon as he finished speaking, Cao Zhenghu was already sitting in the passenger seat and fastened his seat belt: "Shujie, where did you come from with all this nonsense? Hurry up and leave."
"Hehe!" Cao Shujie smiled and drove back.
On the way back, he and his wife drove in reverse, resting when they needed to and did not insist on rushing back to Caojiazhuang in a few days.
Occasionally I would come down and play for a while, and I didn’t feel tired.
By the time they returned to Caojiazhuang, it was already the end of October and November was about to begin.
At this time, the temperature here also dropped.
Cao Shujie also joked to his wife: "If we were in the capital, we should be planning to pay the heating bill this month."
"I still have to buy coal at home, otherwise the price will increase again next month," Cheng Xiaolin said.
Cao Jianguo got the news and came down from the orchard on the mountain. When he saw them, he muttered: "You have really been gone for half a month."
"Dad, it's more than three thousand kilometers, and there are many places to go around." Cao Shujie said.
Wang Yuelan said: "Jianguo, you really should go and see. We saw many places."
She gave examples one by one, which made Cao Jianguo so greedy that he didn't even bother to talk to his wife. He wanted to work first.
We unloaded all the things in the car together, and my mother, Wang Yuelan, was busy cooking first.
Cao Jianguo told his son something: "Shujie, your uncle called more than a week ago and said they would come to pick up your grandpa at the end of the year."
As soon as they finished speaking, before Cao Shujie and Cao Zhenghu expressed any opinions, Mengmeng immediately burst into tears and burst into tears.
"I don't want grandpa to leave, I don't want it!"
Cao Shujie felt heartbroken when he saw her tears and a lot of snot all stuck together, almost covering half of her face.
Cheng Xiaolin was also busy coaxing her daughter.
Wang Yuelan heard the commotion and came out of the house to see. When she asked what was going on, she looked at her husband shamelessly: "Lao Cao, you can't leave Mengmeng aside."
"I didn't expect that either." Cao Jianguo was also a little numb.
His granddaughter's reaction was beyond his expectation.
When Li Xiaojuan saw this, she also helped coax her granddaughter.
But no matter how hard she tried to persuade her, Mengmeng cried and broke away from her mother's arms. She ran towards Cao Zhenghu and hugged his legs: "Grandpa, I won't let you go."
Cao Zhenghu looked at his great-granddaughter who was crying very sadly. He smiled and bent down to pick up Mengmeng and coaxed her: "Grandpa won't leave. Grandpa won't go anywhere. He just plays with Mengmeng."
"I don't believe it, you can't coax me." This little guy is a ghost.
She knew a lot of things, and she was afraid that her grandfather would be the same way, coaxing her first and leaving later, which would make her cry even more sadly.
Cao Shujie didn't expect this. Thinking about it carefully, this year has almost passed.
"Time flies so fast." Cao Shujie sighed.
Mengmeng cried and fell asleep, but she kept holding on to Cao Zhenghu's clothes. In her sleep, she whispered: "I don't want grandpa to leave, no."
Cao Zhenghu held his granddaughter's hand, as if responding to her: "Don't worry, Mengmeng, grandpa won't leave."
"Dad, let me call my uncle and say something." Cao Shujie thought about calling his uncle back.
Cao Jianguo said: "What do you say?"
"I haven't decided what to say yet." Cao Shujie said confidently.
When Cao Jianguo heard his son say this, he wanted to kick him.
